Alternative accounts are preferable to value transfer theory: Commentary on Dorrance, Kaiser, and Zentall (1998)

Animal Learning and Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 490-493

  Aitken, Michael R F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW;

EID: 0032778481     PISSN: 00904996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03209984     Document Type: Review

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